Your New School ID Number can be found:

• On your New School Identification card. It is in the format 'N' plus 8 digits.
• On admissions correspondence, such as your admit letter.
• On all university correspondence, including e-bills.
• If you are a Continuing & Professional Education Student (CPE), login to your account via cpe.newschool.edu, click on "My Profile" in Student Home, your N number is located on the left, under Name and Email. It may take up to 3 business days after your registration for this to appear.

If you cannot locate your ID number:

• Current Students (and former students who did not graduate): Call 212.229.5620 or email the Registrar's Office, reghelp@newschool.edu. Please make sure to include your date of birth in the correspondence.
• Incoming or Newly Admitted Students: Contact Admission at 212.229.5150 or toll-free at 800.292.3040.
• Alumni: Contact Alumni Engagement at alumni@newschool.edu.
• Faculty and Staff: Contact Human Resources at 212.229.5671 and follow the voice menu instructions.

Passwords are used just about everywhere, to protect just about everything. Follow the tips below to make sure that your use of passwords is secure.

Choose a Strong Password

Hackers use special programs called password crackers to try to guess users' passwords. To defend against these tools, it's important to choose a strong password. Passwords used to access New School systems and applications:

1. Must be at least 8 characters long (10 or 12 characters is better)
2. Must contain characters from at least three of the following categories:
   • Uppercase letters: A through Z
   • Lowercase letters: a through z
   • Base 10 digits: 0 through 9
   • Non-alphanumeric characters: ~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/
3. Must not contain your NetID
4. Must not contain elements of your full name
5. Must not be the same as any of your last seven passwords

We also recommend that you avoid choosing things that are easily discovered about you (for example, by looking at the pictures on your desk or reading your Facebook page) like names of relatives or pets, names of streets or towns where you've lived, names of schools you've attended, names of favorite sports teams, names of favorite musical groups, etc.

Here's one popular method for choosing a strong password that meets the above requirements and is easy to remember:

1. Think of a line or two from a favorite song or a poem, and use the first letter of each word.
2. Use numbers to replace a couple of letters:
   • '1' looks like an 'I'
   • '2' looks like a 'Z'
   • '3' looks like a backward 'E'
   • '4' looks like an uppercase 'A'
   • '5' looks like an 'S'
   • '6' looks like a lowercase 'b'
   • '7' looks like an upside-down 'L'
   • '9' looks like a lowercase 'g'
   • '0' looks like an 'O'.
3. Add a punctuation character somewhere.

For example:

• In Step 1, "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener" becomes "IwIwaOMw"
• In Step 2, we can replace an 'I' with a '1' and the 'O' with a '0' to get "Iw1wa0Mw"
• Finally, in step 3, we add an exclamation point to get our final password, "Iw1wa0Mw!".

Use Different Passwords for Different Accounts

If someone obtains your password, then that person has access to everything that password protects. To help keep your information secure, you should use different passwords for different systems and web sites. Here are some general guidelines:

• Do not use your New School password on any non-New School sites
• If you are a Banner user, do not use your regular New School password for your Banner account
• Use different passwords for work and personal email accounts
• Use a different password for each of your online banking and credit card sites, and don?t use those passwords for anything else
• Use a different password for each of your online shopping sites (or other sites that have credit card or bank account information on file)

Sharing Your Passwords

NEVER, EVER, share your passwords with others. That includes sharing them with anyone who claims to be from The New School, or your Internet service provider, or your bank or insurance company. All those organizations have other ways to access your information (legitimately); they do not need your password to gain access. Any email message you receive asking you to provide your password for any reason ("system maintenance," "updating account information," "email storage limit exceeded," etc.) is most likely fraudulent and should be ignored.